Portable building



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1,487,583 A, LOEFFLER- I PORTABLE BUILDING Filed Aug. 23 1921 4 Sheets-Sheet 1 INVENTOR ATTORNEY WITNESS:

March 18 1924.

Av LOEFFLER PORTABLE BUILDING I Filed Aug. 231 1921 4 Sheets-Sheet 2 ATTORNEY WITNESS:

March 18 1924.

v 1,487,583 A. LOEFFLER PORTABLE BUILDING Filed Aug. 23. 1921 4 Sheets-Sheet 3 J/id/PM/ AOP77/Pr l N V E N T O R Marchls 1924. 1,481,583

' A. LOEFFLER PORTABLE BUI LDING Filed Aug. 23. 1921 4 Sheetsfheet 4 4/74)? Loeff/er Wimsss; ATTORNEY Fatented Mar. 18, 1824i.

ANDREW LOEFFLER, OF CLEVELAND, OHIO.

PORTABLE BUILDING.

Application filed August 23, 1921. Serial No. 494,564.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that'I, ANDREW .LOEFFLER,

a citizen of the United States, residing at Cleveland. in the county of Cuyahoga and State of Ohio have invented new and useful Improvements in Portable Buildings, of which the following is a specification.

This invention relates to improvements in portable cottages. the principal object of the invention being to provide a cottage which can be manufactured to sell at low cost and the parts of which can easily and quickly be assembled without the use of tools.

Another object of the invention is to make the upper part of the four walls of the cottage open with canvas covered hinged frames for closing the openings when desired.

Another object of the invention is to make the cottage of sections. the sections consisting of sides, ends and gables and roof sec tions with means for securing the sections together by brackets and bolts and wing nuts.

This invention also consists in certain other features of construction and in the combination and arrangement of the several parts, to be hereinafter fully described, illustrated in the accompanying drawings and 89 specifically pointed out in the appended claims.

In describing my invention in detail, reference will be had to the accompanying drawings wherein like characters denote like or corresponding parts throughout the several views, and in which Figure 1 is a view of the complete cottage.

Figure 2 is an enlarged view of one of the side sections of the cottage.

Figure 3 is an enlarged view of one of the end sections thereof and showing a part of a side section.

Figure 4: is a transverse section through the cottage.

Figure 5 is a horizontal section through a part ot'one side and end.

Figure 6 is a sectional detail through the peak of the roof. V

Figure 7 is a section on line 7-7 of Figure 4.

Figures 8 to 13 are views of the difierent brackets used in assembling the sections.

' As shown in these views the cottage con-1 sists of a pair of side sections 1, a pair of end sections 2, a pair of gable sections 3,-

a pair of roof sections 4 and a pair of fioorsections 5. The side and end sections are constructed of suitable framework 6.

the framework of one of the end sections or both if desired; being formed to leave a door.

opening 8. The lower halves of the side and end sections as well as the door are covered with canvas or the like, as shown at 9, while the upper half of the sections and door is covered with wire gauze, as shown at 10 to prevent the entrance of insects and the like. Canvas covered frames 11 are hinged at their upper edges to the upper rails of the sections so that these can be used for closing the wire covered upper halves of the builders board. the two upper side bar of the roofing sections abutting each other when the roof is in place and having their meeting faces provided with spaced grooves 14 which when the root is in place form holes for receiving the bolts 15 which pass through the ridge bar 16 and through channel-shaped brackets F which embrace the lower edges of the said side bars. Thus the two sections of the roof are securely connected together in a watertight manner, the

ridge bar engaging flattened portions of the ridge part of the roof. Brackets A, B.

C, D, E, and F together with bolts 18 and wing nuts 19 are used for detachably connecting the sections together so that it is simply necessary to first place the two floor sections together to form the floor for the side section by the angle brackets D and the bolts and nuts 'and then connect the end and side sections with the opposite end and side sections to complete the walls of the cottage. The gable sections are placed on the top rail of the end sections. The roof section's-are then put inplace and connected with each other, as before explained and with the wall sections by the brackets A, B and C and th'ebolts and nuts.

cottage. then connect an end section with a A and B and the uface of each end on": the top bar of each end section the slot -d upper end being in alignm nt with the slotted end of the upright, the side bars 0... the root sections ii ting the spaces formed by the upper ends of the uprights and brackets 13 with each connecting bolt passing through the slots in brackets ght and through the side bar of the root section.

The side bars of the root sections rest upon the upper edges of the gable sections which have their ends entering the spaces between brackets B and the uprights. The roof sections are connected with the intermediate uprights of the side sections by the brackets C which are of angle shape, the angle being greater than the right angle. The two root sections are connected together by the brace beams 20 which are connected with the said sections by the brackets E. As will be seen the brackets A, C D and E are each bolted to one section and are provided with a slot for engaging a bolt on the other section so that the brackets are permanently secured to one section and are easily detached from or attached to the other section. Strips 21 are secured to the end edges of the frames of the root sections and to the lower edges of the gable sections. the strips 21 of the roof sections overlapping the gable sections and the strips on the gable sections overlapping the end sections.

Metal strips 22 are placed at the lower edges of the root sections to form gutters for carrying of? the rain water to the ends of the building.

From. the foregoing it will be seen that the cottage can be set up easilv and quickly without the use of any tools. No directions are required as any one can readily see how to proceed with the setting up of the cottage. at will also be seen that the ventilation in the cottage is perfect and by 'raising'and' lowering the hinged 5 frames 11 ventilation can be controlled.

7 If desired a hinged table 21 may be provided which is composed of a tramework covered with canvas and the upper part with wire gauze. This door is suitably hinged to the door frame.

I may also secure one or more bars 23 to the framework 01" the: uprights to form towel raclcs and the like.

tion that the advantages and novel features my invention w'll be readily apparent. 1 desire it to be understood that I may malts cha ges in the construction and in the con'ibination and arrangement of the several parts, provided that such changes fall within the scope of the appended claims. I

l Vhat I claim is l. A portable dwelling comprising a plurality of relatively connected sections presenting respectively a door, side and end sections. gables and roof, the. said side and end sections presenting floor-attaching ele-' ments at their lower edges and roof-attaching elements at their upper edges. the said root-attaching elements of the said. end sections presenting gable-receiving spaces for receiving and maintaining the said gable sections in position between the root and end sections.

2. A portable building comprising a floor section having bolt-holes, side sections having bolt holes and top and bottom sets of:

attaching brackets presenting open slots,

the bottom set of which are disposedin line with the bolt-holes of the floor section, end sections having side sets of similarly slotted brackets in line with. the bolt-holes of is thought from the foregoing descripthe said side sectionsand a set of bottom annnnw nonsense. 

